Kruger 2010: Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC
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Africa/Johannesburg
Protea Kruger Gate Hotel
Protea Kruger Gate Hotel
Kruger National Park, South Africa
Alan Cornell
(University of Witatersrand, South Africa),
Trevor Vickey
(University of the Witwatersrand / University of Oxford)
Description
Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC
Topics:
To include Standard Model physics at hadron colliders as well as Higgs boson, SUSY and exotic particle searches. Discussions on the latest Monte Carlo tools, cross-section calculations for signal and background processes to higher orders, as well as strategies for new physics searches are expected. The status of the CERN Large Hadron Collider, along with first measurements from the LHC experiments, will also be presented.
Goals:
Six days of plenary talks and parallel sessions where some of the very latest experimental results from the LHC (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb), as well as topical beyond the Standard Model theories, will be presented. Proceedings from the Workshop will be published in "Proceedings of Science"
Topics:
To include Standard Model physics at hadron colliders as well as Higgs boson, SUSY and exotic particle searches. Discussions on the latest Monte Carlo tools, cross-section calculations for signal and background processes to higher orders, as well as strategies for new physics searches are expected. The status of the CERN Large Hadron Collider, along with first measurements from the LHC experiments, will also be presented.
Goals:
Six days of plenary talks and parallel sessions where some of the very latest experimental results from the LHC (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb), as well as topical beyond the Standard Model theories, will be presented. Proceedings from the Workshop will be published in "Proceedings of Science"
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Registration of Participants 1h
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Welcome Address 25m Hubya
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Overview of Physics in South Africa 30m Hubya
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Experimental particle physics in the LHC area and possible implications for development in Africa 50m Hubya
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LHC Physics Overview 50m Hubya
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Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the LHC 50m Hubya
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Coffee Break 15m
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Overview of the ALICE results 50m Hubya
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Lunch Break 1h 25m
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Parallel Session: Detector I Hubya
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Performance of the ATLAS Inner Tracker 30mSpeaker: Salvador Marti i Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV-CSIC))
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Parallel Session: QCD I Ghama
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Measurement of Transverse Momentum Spectra of identified Hadrons from pp Collisions with the ALICE Experiment 30mSpeaker: Alexander Philipp Kalweit (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
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Parallel Session: Student Tutorials I Bandla I
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From Operators and Lorentz Invariance to Quantum Fields and Gauge Symmetry 1hSpeaker: Prof. Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Tea Break 30m
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Parallel Session: Detector I Hubya
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Setting of the ATLAS Jet Energy Scale 30mSpeaker: Michele Petteni (Simon Fraser University)
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Room available for open discussion 30m
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Parallel Session: QCD I Ghama
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Inclusive production of jets and dijets at LHCb 30mSpeaker: Giulio Auriemma (Universita di Roma I "La Sapienza")
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Parallel Session: Standard Model I Bandla II
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Hard QCD Measurements in ATLAS 30mSpeaker: Rainer Stamen (Kirchhoff-Institut fur Physik/Heidelberg)
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Parallel Session: Theory I Bandla I
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QFT Discussion 30mSpeaker: Prof. Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Standard Model Discussion 30mSpeaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)
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Room available for open discussion 1h
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Latest results from the CMS Experiment 50m Hubya
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LHCb Status, First Physics and Discovery Potential 50m Hubya
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Coffee Break 15m
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Phenomenology in the LHC Era 50m Hubya
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Lunch Break 1h 25m
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Parallel Session: B-physics I Ghama
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Heavy Flavour Production in ATLAS 30mSpeaker: Francesco Conventi (Univ. + INFN)
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Parallel Session: Detector II Bandla II
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Operation, Calibration and Performance of the CMS Silicon Tracker 30mSpeaker: Ettore Focardi (University/INFN Florence)
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Parallel Session: Exotics and BSM Physics I Hubya
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Tea Break 30m
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Parallel Session: B-physics I Ghama
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Prompt Jpsi and b->Jpsi X production in pp collisions 30mSpeaker: Dr Patrick Robbe
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Parallel Session: Detector II Bandla II
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Kruger National Park, South Africa- 3:30 PM
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Parallel Session: Exotics and BSM Physics I Hubya
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Parallel Session: Student Tutorials II Bandla I
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General Relativity Discussion 30mSpeaker: Dr Kevin Goldstein (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Correlators of Operators With Large R-Charge in the ABJM Theory 30mSpeaker: Dr Tanay Dey (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Parallel Session: B-physics II Ghama
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Leptonic decays 20mSpeaker: Dr Thomas Mattison (University of British Columbia)
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Parallel Session: Exotics and BSM Physics II Hubya
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Early Search for Supersymmetry at ATLAS 30mSpeaker: Xuai Zhuang (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)
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Searches for Stopped Gluinos during Beam-off Periods at CMS 30mSpeaker: Amita Raval (Penn State University)
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Parallel Session: Standard Model II Bandla II
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CMS Results in Electroweak Physics 30mSpeaker: Dr Ilaria Segoni (CERN)
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W and Z Production in the forward region at LHCb 30mSpeaker: David Hutchcroft (University of Liverpool)
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Parallel Session: Theory II Bandla I
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Kruger National Park, South Africa-
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Stau relic density at the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis era consistent with the abundance of light element nuclei in the co-annihilation scenario 30mSpeaker: Dr Joe Sato
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The properties of CKM Evolution in the UED Model 30mSpeaker: Dr Lu-Xin Liu (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Tea Break 30m
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Parallel Session: Exotics and BMS Physics II Hubya
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Kruger National Park, South Africa- 3:30 PM
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Parallel Session: Standard Model II Bandla II
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Kruger National Park, South Africa-
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SM Discussion 2hSpeaker: All
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Parallel Session: Theory II Bandla I
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Kruger National Park, South Africa- 3:30 PM
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Phenomenology discussion 30mSpeaker: Prof. Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)
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Coffee Break 15m
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Neutrinos: from Pauli to the LHC 50m Hubya
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Parallel Session: Exotics and BSM Physics III Hubya
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Search for New Physics in the Dijet Mass Spectrum in CMS 30mSpeaker: Lorenzo Agostino (Cornell University)
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Parallel Session: QCD II Ghama
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Kruger National Park, South Africa-
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Results and Prospects for charm physics at LHCb 30mSpeaker: Philip John Hunt (Particle Physics-University of Oxford-Unknown)
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Suppression of Charged Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in Central Pb–Pb Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV 30mSpeaker: Jochen Thaeder (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS))
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Parallel Session: Student Discussion Bandla II
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Kruger National Park, South Africa-
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Discussion I 1hSpeaker: All
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Parallel Session: Theory III Bandla I
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Kruger National Park, South Africa-
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Supergroups and generally extended supersymmetry 30mSpeaker: Dr Peter Roenne (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Semiclassical strings in toric AdS/CFT and its marginal deformations 30mSpeaker: Dr Dimitrios Giataganas (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Tea Break 30m
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Parallel Session: Exotics and BSM Physics III Hubya
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Search for New Physics in the Dijet Centrality Ratio in CMS 30mSpeaker: Amita Raval (DESY)
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Parallel Session: QCD II Ghama
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Kruger National Park, South Africa-
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QCD Discussion 2hSpeaker: All
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Parallel Session: Student Discussion Bandla II
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Kruger National Park, South Africa-
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Discussion II 2hSpeaker: All
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Parallel Session: Theory III Bandla I
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Kruger National Park, South Africa-
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Qualitative and Quantitative Jet Physics in Pb + Pb at LHC 30mSpeaker: Dr Will Horowitz (University of Cape Town)
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Discussion session I 1hSpeakers: Aldo Deandrea (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL)), Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics)
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Gala Dinner 4h
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The physics case for the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) 50m Hubya
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Coffee Break 15m
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Goodbye 15m Hubya
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